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13/11: Ross's B-day Party
Here are some pictures from Ross's b-day party. That cake is a delicious peach cake that fits on the WW core plan :). It was pretty good and very filling. I used oats instead of flour and flavored it with sugar free jello and pudding mixes. Also had yummy peach chunks in it. It looks sort of strange though I have to say. Maybe next time I'll ice it with fat free cool whip. That would look nicer at least.
This shirt is part of one of the pairs of PJs that I made for Mikey. The pants are 3 inches too long, I made them in size 3. Oh well, they are cute. This shirt sort of makes me thing of something that belongs in Star Trek the original though. Like on an alien race or something. Maybe it's just the pattern, it looks almost metallic or something.
Cuddling the webcam, he sure loves to chat with all of you on the computer. A ha ha ha. (That was for grandma Larsen from Mikey)
Playing in the gravel at the park. Yeah, I love dirt! It was foggy and a little nippy, probably 65 degrees. I was still in shirt sleeves, but didn't want Mikey to get cold. I guess we'll be in for a shocker when we get to UT :).
Cuddling my precious boy. Here's a hug for all of you. He must have been getting tired, he is usually too busy to just sit and cuddle. Though when it's his idea he's all for it. (He's holding a cloth book in case you are wondering, he is in love with books and especially likes singing books like The Friendly Beasts that Tara illustrated, and Hush Little Alien that is absolutely ridiculously silly. We borrowed it from the library. His next favorite are books with animals that we can make the sounds of. He learned to waddle like a penguin today when I showed him to waddle while reading about a penguin.)
Laura, Job and Levi (their baby) are coming out for Catherine's wedding the weekend of the 21st. We are so looking forward to seeing them. They'll be staying with us Friday, Saturday and maybe Sunday night. Rachel Canyon Sparrow (my cousin, Joe and Sam's older sister) and her little James are coming Saturday and spending the night and hanging out with us Sunday. It is going to be really fun. We are planning on having an early Thanksgiving feast and playing games and staying up too late. It should be a huge party! I'm so excited.
PS-I'm going to put a bunch of videos up on facebook, take a look if you want. They are cute!
05/11: Pre-Halloween and recent pix
Finally got the new camera cord! Woohoo! Don't worry, there will be Halloween pix too. I'll have to put them on Facebook though due to time constraints. If you have any pointers on speedy picture postings I would really appreciate them!Love you guys!
20/10: Guess I should make an official announcement.
Ross and Mikey and I are expecting a new family member near the end of May. We are very excited, and mommy is tired and having trouble thinking what sounds nice to eat. Love you guys! Sorry no pix, our camera power cord is lost. I'm sure it's Ross's fault, NOT MINE!! *grin*27/09: A few cute things
Sorry if it's annoying but its so easy to upload pictures and videos on facebook. I just put up about 15 pictures and 1 video. Hope you enjoy :).9/23/2008
Mikey's words- 2 days before he's 15 months old:
People and animals
Michael (My-koh)
Mama, Mom
Dada, Daddy
Carter (Kah-tah) that's his little neighbor friend
doggy - signs, (gah-gee) doggy sound- oof oof (oo oo)
chicken sound - (bah bah)
piggy sound - he snorts outward, it ends up sounding more like a juicy k + ch like in Ba"ch". Ross says that's the sound I make when something stinks. He's trying to snort.
monkey sound - aah aah
bee sound - zzzzzz
birdie - signs only. Also signs bird for flies, mosquitos, and other things that appear to fly like the part of the grass with seeds, and little lawn flags.
Food
cracker - (ka kuh) (the first vowel is a like cat)
more - signs or (mer mer)
banana - signs only; sometimes says (na nuh) but it might mean no, I can't tell. Hillariously inaccurate sign, you're supposed to pretent to peel your left pointer finger like a banana, He wiggles his hands all around in bizrre angles, but he has at least one pointer finger pointing up. So that's banana.
drink - signs
all done - signs (ahl duh) with duh said much higher like in a question cause I always ask "Are you all done?"
Other
i love you- (ay ya yoo) if I whisper it too him he whispers it back
bath - signs
Also does most of the chicken dance. I think those are most of wht he says above. He's a great mimick. Today I asked if he needed more attention and he said (uh ten tuh). Tuh was said like it was a question, much higher than the rest. Also, today walking through the grocery store we walked past the crackers and he started signing "more" madly and bam he suddenly knew how to say cracker.
He also plays boop, this is a Larsen tradition where you touch pointer fingers and you move the fingers up toward the ceiling while saying boooooooop and the pitch gets higher the higher your fingers go. This is very cute!!
Yesterday he started blowing bubbles on mommy and daddy's tummies and thighs to tickle us. This was very hillarious and surprisingly tickly!
Daddy says it's all very cute. Mommy agrees.
19/09: New pictures on facebook
Sorry, they are just so easy to upload to my facebook account. I just put on some fun ones of Mikey eating, talking on the phone, and playing in his toy box. We'll see about videos too :)...27/08: Back home
We're back home and we've finally gotten everything back together. We miss all of you so much, and are also very happy to be back home in our own little apartment. We met our new downstairs neighbors yesterday and saw many friends at church in addition to meeting many new people. That's the fun of a college town, you always get to meet so many new people. This is the first year of my college life (I guess I'm graduated...) where I've lived in the same apartment for 2 years. That feels really good. I love stability, even if all I can get is 4 years of it, that's good enough.Hope you are all happy!
Tatiana
24/06: I have a two really cute videos I want to upload.
The first one is Michael pushing around food storage cans that didn't fit into the cupboard. The second is Michael playing peek-a-boo.There was a super cute bathtime one where mikey's bath toys stick to him and he's playing with toys stuck to his back and head, but I thought maybe it's not ok to put naked pix online even if they are innocent, so you'll have to see it later.
Love you all. Enjoy,
Tatiana
18/06: Whole slice of pizza
Well, Michael read for 1hr 30min total and got a pizza from the library summer reading program. Here he is enjoying the fruits of his labor. Note the pinky delicately curled upward.the blog doesn't want to upload pictures, so I am going to try something new and upload them onto facebook. Just look at my account, and if you need I can accept you as a friend.
Thanks!
Tati